{"id":8906,"date":"2020-08-11T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T17:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/11\/is-lindsey-graham-actually-in-trouble-in-s-c\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:34:22","slug":"is-lindsey-graham-actually-in-trouble-in-s-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/is-lindsey-graham-actually-in-trouble-in-s-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Lindsey Graham actually in trouble in S.C.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After announcing his bid for the South Carolina U.S. Senate race in 2019, Democrat Jaime Harrison is gaining steam in campaign financing, nearly neck-and-neck with incumbent Lindsey Graham. Still, the challenger is facing an &#8220;uphill battle,&#8221; said Danielle Vinson in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/08\/11\/jaime-harrison-lindsey-graham-south-carolina-391886\">POLITICO<\/a><\/strong> article. Vinson, a Furman University alumna and politics and international affairs professor, said, &#8220;It&#8217;s still South Carolina, it&#8217;s still very much a Republican state.&#8221; She concedes the race will be more competitive than those in the past because voters now have a &#8220;credible candidate&#8221; in Harrison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After announcing his bid for the South Carolina U.S. Senate race in 2019, Democrat Jaime Harrison is gaining steam in campaign financing, nearly neck-and-neck with incumbent Lindsey Graham. Still, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,32,1],"tags":[405,406,407,255,408,409],"class_list":["post-8906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-uncategorized","tag-2020-senate-race","tag-black-vote","tag-campaign-finance","tag-covid-19","tag-jaime-harrison","tag-lindsey-graham"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}